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Probe into 'Bin Laden death' leak
President Jacques Chirac has ordered an inquiry into the leak of a French secret service memo claiming that Osama Bin Laden had died. Mr Chirac told reporters he was surprised the memo had been leaked, and refused to comment on the claim itself.
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Crystal healing
Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opals. Adherents of the practice claim that these have healing powers, but there is no scientific basis for this claim.
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The Bin Laden danger in all countries
It might have been wiser for President Obama not to have announced the death of Osama Bin Laden so triumphantly but to have let the news leak out from “official sources” in the Pentagon, or from the Pakistan government, or even from Al Qaeda itself.
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What is the Citizen Science Alliance?
The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop, manage and utilise internet-based citizen science projects in order to further science itself, and the public understanding of both science and of the scientific process.
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Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie
NOW AVAILABLE AS AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH ALL NEW ART! www.timminchin.com/stormthebook In the confines of a London dinner party, comedian Tim Minchin argues with a hippy named Storm. While Storm herself may not be converted, audiences from London to LA have been won over by Tim's wordplay and the t
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TEDx Brussels 2010 - Frank Tipler - The Ultimate Future
Tulane physicist Frank Tipler committed professional heresy by publishing The Physics of Immortality, a book in which he used the scientific method and the principles of modern physics to lay out what he called a proof for not only the existence of God, but for the resurrection of the dead as descri
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Private prison
A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.
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'Fukushima nuclear plant' radiation found at UK sites
Low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have been detected in Glasgow and Oxfordshire. Health protection officials said the concentration of iodine 131 detected in air samples was "minuscule" and there was "no public health risk in the UK".
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Básnik Pominuteľnosti
Pavol Hudák je prvým blízkym priateľom, ktorého som pochoval. Pochoval som už niekoľko členov rodiny, ale kamaráta doteraz žiadneho. Príde mi celkom príznačné, že je to práve on, kto sa na toto prvenstvo podujal.
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Life In A Day 2010 Film
Life In A Day is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald. Soundtrack available here @ http://goo.gl/N9F6O For more information on Life In A Day, visit http://www.yout
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'Hobbit' human 'is a new species'
The tiny skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found on an Indonesian island belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, a study has found. The finds caused a sensation when they were announced to the world in 2004.
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Classical Chinese poetry
Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry written in Classical Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms, or modes; traditional genres; and connections with particular historical periods, such as the poetry of the Tang Dynasty.
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Cantillon
Notre bar est ouvert les lundi, mardi, jeudi et vendredi de 10h à 16h. La dernière tournée au bar est à 16h. Concernant les visites du samedi (uniquement guidées), elles sont exclusivement sur réservation. Les tickets sont disponibles sur notre site en cliquant sur l’onglet "Visites".
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'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa
This is a picture of the recently unearthed human-like skull which is being described as the most important find of its type in living memory. It was found in the desert in Chad by an international team and is thought to be approximately seven million years old. "I knew I would one day find it...
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Andy's Anachronisms -- Time Travel Reviews
On the net since 1999, Andy's Anachronisms is devoted to exploring the themes of time travel and alternate history in books, movies, television, and pop culture in general.
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Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is published by the Union of International Associations (UIA). It is available online since 2000,[1] and was previously available as a CD-ROM and as a three-volume book.[2] The online Encyclopedia is currently in a redevelopment phase.[3]
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Slave-making ants target the strong not the weak
Slavemaker ants prefer to target the strong over the weak when seeking new servants, researchers have found. Ants were observed actively choosing to attack larger, better defended colonies over smaller, weaker ones.
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Slovenský raj - Turistika, mapy, fotografie, ubytovanie, ... - Slovenský raj
Národný park Slovenský raj sa nachádza vo východnej časti Slovenska, roku 1964 bol vyhlásený za chránenú krajinnú oblasť a v roku 1988 bol Nariadením vlády SR prekategorizovaný na národný park. Má rozlohu 19 763 ha a ochranné pásmo 13 011 ha.
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Capela dos Ossos
The Capela dos Ossos (English: Chapel of Bones) is one of the best known monuments in Évora, Portugal. It is a small interior chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. The Chapel gets its name because the interior walls are covered and decorated with human skulls and bones.
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Tiny tubes point to ancient life
Tiny tubes thought to have been etched into South African rocks by microbes are at least 3.34 billion years old, scientists can confirm. The tubules could therefore represent the earliest "trace" evidence of activity by life on Earth.
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Old Weather
Help scientists transcribe Arctic and worldwide weather observations recorded in ship's logs since the mid-19th century.
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Making electricity from urine
Scientists have developed a way to convert urine in to a renewable energy source. But as Sally Magnusson, author of Life of Pee and presenter of Radio 4's Secret Science of Pee, writes in this viewpoint feature, there is some way to go before the idea is embraced more widely.
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Curveball (informant)
Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed AlwanBornRafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi1968 (age 55–56)IraqNationalityGerman, former Iraqi citizenOther namesCurveballAlma materBaghdad UniversityRafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi (Arabic: رافد أحمد علوان الجنابي, Rāfid Aḥmad Alwān; born 1968), known by
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'Lucy's baby' found in Ethiopia
The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region. The female Australopithecus afarensis bones are from the same species as an adult skeleton found in 1974 which was nicknamed "Lucy".
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